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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!sgigate.sgi.com!esiee.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Compaq PROSIGNA 300? Date: 20 Jun 1996 08:19:04 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4qb1ho$c9u@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <tsohmon72t.fsf@pousm.po.usbw> <31C0B611.24663B4E@lambert.org> <4q7dkg$dok@floyd.sw.oz.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E nickw@sw.oz.au (Nicholas Waples) wrote: > Well I had the onboard ethernet partially working on BSDI 2.1. I just > had to tell it the port address to probe, and it recognised it ok. Which basically proves Lance Cavener's theory wrong. > The only problem was that it had regular framing errors, but otherwise > it did at least seem to work (not that I really tested it much, I just > stuck in another card instead). I've also seen this (and some other minor oddities) under FreeBSD. Seems the PCnet chips is quite more crippled than the original Lance Am7990 chip. This is however not surprising if you compare this with other recent chip designs like 3Com's 3C5x9 and 3C59x which are explicitly marked as ``for client use''. Nevertheless, the chip was basically working for me, too. (I had to setup an environment that allowed duplication of 800 MB IDE drives between HP Vectra's without disassembling the machines first. The sustained data rate were between 700 and 750 KB, but remember, the IDE was used in PIO mode only.) -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j